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Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana

Teeters Peak

Kootenai NF pole tower with an 8x8 ft cab, dated 1934 and destroyed in 1960 per firelookout.com; a seller's description of a 1966 map may conflict. No source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Listing says destroyed in 1960; a seller's description of a 1966 map mentions a lookout tower on the peak

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.

Access

Access unknown

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Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower50-foot pole tower with an 8x8-foot cab and L-4 cab quartersThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
50 ft (15.2 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Kootenai National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Lincoln County, Montana
Coordinates
48.06823, −115.47008
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-teeters-peak

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 Built50-foot pole tower with an 8x8-foot cab (firelookout.com listing)Source: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1934 and 1960
  3. 1960 DestroyedListing says destroyed 1960Source: firelookout.com
  4. 1966 Event1966 topographic map reprint, as described by Pastmaps, shows a pack trail to Teeters Peak and mentions a lookout tower there; conflicts with the 1960 destruction date only if that tower stood in the mid-1960sSource: pastmaps.com
  5. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

USGS topographic maps from the years a lookout stood may show it, often as a small symbol labelled “Lookout”. See the old topo maps around it on the Firefinder map, or find every scanned sheet of this spot on USGS TopoView (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Teeters Peak carried a 50-foot pole tower with an 8-by-8-foot cab, and a listing dates the tower to 1934.1 The listing also mentions L-4 cab quarters.1 The Forest Service describes the L-4, also called an "Aladdin," as a 14-by-14-foot pre-cut house, produced between 1929 and 1953. It has a peaked roof, with wooden panels set horizontally over the windows.2

The peak sits in Lincoln County, 22 miles south-southeast of Libby, on the Kootenai National Forest.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists it as a tower that is gone.3 The listing says the tower was destroyed in 1960.1

The sources do not fully agree. A 1966 topographic map reprint, as described by the seller Pastmaps, shows a pack trail to Teeters Peak.4 The seller also describes a lookout tower on the peak, in that mid-1960s terrain, as useful for fire management.4 If the tower stood then, that conflicts with the listing's 1960 date.

No source describes the Teeters Peak site today or says whether it is open to visitors.

  1. Teeters Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/teeterspeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Lookout Styles, USDA Forest Service, Nez Perce National Forest, https://www.fs.usda.gov/media/259212 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. 1966 Map of Barren Peak, Lincoln County, MT, Pastmaps, https://pastmaps.com/map/barren-peak-lincoln-county-mt-usgs-topo-1966-p1984 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Sources

  1. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: name, location, county, type, status, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  2. firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page Gave us: links firelookout.com · No licence stated on the site; facts only (coordinates, elevation, built/destroyed years, design, agency). Photos mirrored with the site's stated credit. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  3. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, status, agency, dates, links, fact-check Firefinder research (sources cited in the story footnotes) · Our own research notes; each fact cites its source in the lookout's story

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